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If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe than just the effects of sleep deprivation and lack of support. Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.
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Of all the things that seem wrong with solving this with a pill, I think this is the single most grotesquely negligent element of this approval. Is the FDA immune from suits if this results in a generation of damaged kids? Was it so hard to say "oh..... It ends up in breast milk. We should compare the kids"? Even if it defers the approval by some years?
Because there is no currently approved treatment for postpartum depression, what they’re comparing here is the danger of untreated PPD against the danger of either discontinuing breastfeeding or having the newborn ingest a small amount of this medication. Untreated PPD is no joke. Not only does the mother’s suffering matter in itself, it has serious documented effects on the baby. And there is nothing wrong or neglig…
Your points are well made, though this isn't really what I said.
For what it's worth, while I'm worried the decision was made on what essentially amounts to an assumption, the option for using formula exists for parents worried about the drug making it into breast milk. So it seems there's at least one mitigating factor. But it wouldn't surprise me if the drug ends up being labeled for leeching into breast milk later on.
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My wife is scared shitless of postpartum depression. People don't think of it as a problem because it's a "woman issue" and not a big deal. Coupled with the medical profession being notorious for discounting black womens' issues, I don't blame her for being scared. We'll be first in line for getting the pill if she needs it.
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If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe than just the effects of sleep deprivation and lack of support. Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.
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Write the micro services in Go lol.
But yeah I agree to some point. We medicate far too fast and easily these days. Half these drugs have insane side effects, and yet people shit on shrooms. At least I won’t die from blood clots or some random shit.
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If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe than just the effects of sleep deprivation and lack of support. Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.
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This is a uniquely American problem and an American solution. American healthcare and society fails new mothers. Others have done a great job of pointing out the physical and emotional distress a new mother goes through. However, I'd like to point out the social aspect. New mothers in America are not supported by paid family leave. Vast majority of women are required to go back to work in about 2 weeks after birth. F…
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If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe than just the effects of sleep deprivation and lack of support. Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.
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For 99.9999% of humanity's history, penicillin was "never needed". Antidepressant usage is universal throughout Europe. It makes more sense to treat postpartum depression, not less, because it's so likely to have a straightforward chemical cause. That's why there is an oral treatment specifically targeting it.
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